What Are the Oscar Winners Doing Next?
The acting winners at Oscars 2016. (Getty Images)
The Academy Award winners have had less than 24 hours to bask in the glow of their victories. But in Hollywood, it’s never too soon to start talking about what each of them is going to do next. Here’s a look at the upcoming projects for last night’s high-profile statuette grabbers.
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Alejandro G. I?árritu: The first director in over half a century to win the prize two years in a row, I?árritu has spoken extensively about the level of effort involved in making The Revenant. Perhaps for that reason, as he recently told Deadline, he doesn’t have another project lined up yet. “I have been going the last three years on Birdman and this, like I am driving in a car, 300 mph,” he says. “I have to slow down. … I have been looking down, so I just need to have a little bit of a break. So I can look up and figure out what I need to do next.”
Alicia Vikander: The supporting actress winner was very busy in 2015, and she apparently has zero plans to pump any brakes. We’ll be seeing The Danish Girl star’s face in several upcoming movies, some of which she’s already wrapped production on and others that she’s about to begin. Those films include:
? Jason Bourne, in which Vikander stars opposite Matt Damon, is due out in July. Not much is known about the plot of the fifth Bourne movie or Vikander’s specific role.
? The Light Between Oceans, an adaptation of the bestselling novel by M.L. Stedman, in which Vikander stars opposite real-life boyfriend Michael Fassbender as a husband and wife who take in an infant after she washes up on the shores near their lighthouse. That’s scheduled to be released Sept. 2. You can watch the trailer below.
? Tulip Fever, reportedly due out this year, has completed filming and stars Vikander as a woman married to a man played by Christoph Waltz and who’s painted by an artist (Dane DeHaan) who falls in love with her.
? Submergence, directed by Wim Wenders and co-starring James McAvoy, is due to start shooting next month, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In it, Vikander will play an oceanic explorer on a mission while her lover (McAvoy) is being held by jihadist fighters thousands of miles away.
Mark Rylance: The supporting star of Bridge of Spies will be featured in another upcoming Steven Spielberg project, The BFG. Rylance plays the titular giant in the Roald Dahl adaptation, which comes out July 1.
Rylance is also set to appear in the next Christopher Nolan film, the World War II epic Dunkirk, which is slated to costar fellow Oscar nominee Tom Hardy and Kenneth Branagh.
Brie Larson: The Oscar-winning Room star has more indies and a couple of high-profile films on her horizon. We can expect to see her in:
? Kong: Skull Island, the King Kong origin story that stands as Larson’s first big-budget, large-scale production, is currently shooting with a cast that also includes Tom Hiddleston and Samuel L. Jackson. It’s due to hit theaters in March 2017.
? Basmati Blues, a musical comedy in which Larson plays a scientist sent to India to sell genetically modified rice. The release date for that independent film, which also stars Donald Sutherland and Scott Bakula, has not been determined.
? The thriller Free Fire, a movie she joined after Olivia Wilde reportedly had to drop out. The gang-war film also stars Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, and Cillian Murphy.
? Larson is also onboard to star as Jeanette Walls in the adaptation of Walls’s memoir The Glass Castle, a project that, at one time, was to star Jennifer Lawrence. The film will reteam Larson with Destin Daniel Cretton, who directed her in her indie breakout, Short Term 12.
Leonardo DiCaprio: He finally ended his longtime Oscar losing streak with his win for The Revenant. But unlike his director, DiCaprio has approximately 8,000 projects on his plate, most of them in a producing capacity. He’s also reportedly onboard to star in several movies, though it’s unclear which one will wind up being his first post-Revenant effort. Among the films he’s rumored to potentially star in soon:
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? The Devil in the White City, an adaptation of Erik Larson’s bestselling nonfiction book about a serial killer stalking the city of Chicago during the time of the 1893 World’s Fair. Martin Scorsese is set to direct with his muse DiCaprio in the role of the murderous H.H. Holmes. No word on how close this is to actually starting production.
? The Ballad of Richard Jewell, a look at the man wrongly accused of the 1996 Olympic Park bombings; DiCaprio would star opposite his Wolf of Wall Street buddy Jonah Hill, who’s reportedly been tapped to play Jewell. The project has been rumored for at least a year. It’s also not clear how close this one is to actually coming to fruition.
? Conquest: Paramount just acquired this film, to be scripted by Revenant screenwriter Mark L. Smith. Details about DiCaprio’s role and the premise are scant.
? Blood on Snow, another DiCaprio project that’s been talked about for a while, in which he would play a hitman who falls in love with one of his targets. There’s been no recent word about this one, so it may be a while before this goes into production, if it even happens with DiCaprio in the lead.
Tom McCarthy: The director of this year’s Best Picture winner, Spotlight, has his next gig all lined up. According to Deadline, he’ll executive produce and direct the first two episodes of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, a project spearheaded by fellow executive producer Selena Gomez. He’s also got a few screenplays in the can and, based on that same Deadline article, has been developing a Broadway musical version of his 2007 film, The Visitor.
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